Stage Three

Visual Design

Brainstorming

  • Reviewing the vision and objective of the website
  • Determining the mood, tone (attitude), and style of the website
  • Finding ways to convey site objective and Call to Action
  • Gathering, words, images, colors, fonts, and shapes that represent the objective, vision, and tone (attitude) of the website

Conceptualization

  • Creating and sketching cohesive visual solution using brainstorming results
  • Implementing analogies and metaphors to express site objective

Experimentation

  • Creating mood board
  • Creating layout sketches

Crafting

  • Creating a layout that effectively reflects the theme and personality of the existing content
  • Placing objects in a way that lends visual balance, hierarchy, and an overall harmony to the website
  • Refining and polishing the website's look; adding details and embellishments as necessarily to achieve a cohesive, visually pleasing look

Transferring files

  • Measuring, Slicing, and optimizing images

Resources

Books

  • Creative Workshop by David Sherwin
  • The Web Designer's Idea Book by Patrick McNeil
  • Universal Principles Of Design

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